SPECIAL BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT NO. 170
BROTHERHOOD OF RAILWAY AND STEAMSHIP CLERICS,
FREIGHT
HANDLERS, EXPRESS AND STATION EMPLOYES
versus
ILLIN0::S CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY
STATEMENT OF CLAIM: Claim of the System Committee of the Brotherhood that --
(a) Carrier violated Rules of the Clerks$ Agreement at Warehouse
6
(Coffee Shed) Poydras Freight Agency, New Orleans, Louisiana, when on October 24,
25,
26,
27, 28, 31, November 1, 2, 3, and 4, 1955, it unilaterally assigned work
theretofore attaching a clerical position to be performed by an employe of the
Carrier occupying a position not included within the Scope Rule of Its Agreement
with the Brotherhood, revised as of February
.1,
1954.
(b) All clerical employes adversely affected be compensated fox* Wage
losses sustained representing a days pay at the rate of pay attaching Foropan
N. Locantro's position on the dates enumerated in part (a) of claim.
NOTE: Individual employes affected by the rule violation be determined-by
joint chegX of Carriers payroll and other records and ret~ibutio.,
made accordingly.
OPINIONS There are employed at the Poydras Freight Agency, NeW,,Orleanb.y Louisiana,
a force of employes who perform the.clerical work necessary
to the
opera
tion of the agency. Carrier maintains several warehouses under the .ppeitisian of
the Poydras Street Freight Agent. .Such warehouses are under the d3Oat.04ervision
of General Foreman A. C. Curren. Warehouse No.
6
is maintained approximately one
mile distant from the Poydras Street Warehouse. The operation at ~hrehous6 N'o.
6
is supervised
by
Foreman Loeantro. On the dates mentioned in the claim, A. C.
Crirren was absent from work for vacation purposes. During his absence, Foreman
Locantro was removed from his assignment at Warehouse No.
6
and assigned to
currents position at Poydras Street, and Assistan(b Agent Hott was assigned to
fill the Foremants position at Warehouse No.
6
during Locantro's absence.
It;As the position of the Employes that there was no abolishment of
work and that the Carrier violated the agreement when it assigned all the duties
attaching to the Foremants position at Warehouse No.
6
to an employe occupying
a position totally excepted from all provisions of the Clerks, Agreement.
It is the position of the Carrier that the Employes violated the agreement when they failed to name the Claimants involved as specified in Article V,
Section l(a) of the August 21, 1954, Agreement.
We are in accord with the position of the Carrier on this issue. See
Award No. 40, Special Board of Adjustment No. 170.
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Award No. 49
Docket No. OL-9434
BINDINGS: The Special Board of Adjustment No. 170, after giving to the parties
to this dispute due notice of hearing thereon, and upon the whole
record and all the evidence, finds and holds=
That the Carrier and Employes involved in this dispute are respectively
Carrier and Employes within the meaning of the Railway Labor Act;
That the Special Board of Adjustment No. 170 has jurisdiction over
the dispute involved herein; and
That the agreement was not violated.
AWARD: Claim denied.
SPECIAL BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT NO. 170
/s/ Edward M. Sharpe
Edward M. Sharpe - Chairman
/s/ E. H. Hallmann
R. W. Copeland - Employe Member E. H. Hallmann - Carrier Member
Chicago, Illinois
dune 1 1 8
1,
Date